Monday, August 31, 2015

It's SkyPlanner Parachute Monday! Find out what we at SkyPlanner, South Florida's Salesforce consulting company, have been reading, watching, listening to, and learning from during the past week.

This week salesforce.com unveiled the next iteration of its leading CRM platform. SkyPlanner, South Florida's ‪#‎Salesforce‬ consulting company, has learned that Salesforce Lightning is much more than just a visual or UI overhaul. It is a complete re-imagining of the entire framework of the Salesforce system aimed at allowing Salesforce customers to increase all aspects of their sales efforts.[via The SkyPlanner Blog]

As machines increasingly perform complex tasks once thought to be safely reserved for humans, the question has become harder to shrug off: What jobs will be left for people? A new NBER working paper suggests it’ll be those that require strong social skills — which it defines as the ability to work with others — something that has proven to be much more difficult to automate. [ via Harvard Business Review]

Then and Now. Below is one of the first shots of Salesforce circa 1999 and the new Salesforce Lightning homepage circa 2015. Which Lightning feature are you most excited about? [via Salesforce]